Chapter 1
Disclaimer:I don't own Inuyasha, never have and never will.
Sesshoumaru smirked as he watched Naraku and Kouga beat the daylights out of that Hojo boy. Nerds like him didn't deserve to talk to the Great Sesshoumaru, leader of the most popular group of boys in school. The gang was known as the Rich Bastards, RB for short. They hadn't chosen the name, rather it was chosen for them. They were the most popular boys, and could date anyone in the school without question. He smirked as Hojo fell to the floor unconscious. They heard a teacher coming and quickly the three members of RB ducked into a janitor's closet. They listened to the teacher find the unconscious boy and listened as the male teacher, obvious by the voice, hauled Hojo to the nurse's office.
Hours after this incident Inuyasha, Miroku, Naraku, Kouga, and Sesshoumaru were walking across the vast front lawns talking about women, money, summer vacation, inheritance battles, the usual. That's when they appeared. Five girls stood under a tree, all of them dressed in black, silver, or red, or all three colors. They were talking in low voices, but stopped when one of them spotted the entire RB standing only a ways off. The girl who was obviously the leader of the gang, turned and smirked at them before she and her friends stalked off the campus. Sesshoumaru followed her with his eyes, her black and silver top with black jeans and silver chains catching his eye. Her hair was in a high pony tail and was the color of pitch blackness with silver and red streaks here and there. It hit her lower back, almost to her waist.
He smiled at her silver stripes, because it was the exact same silver his and Inuyasha's hair was. His golden eyes glinted with amusement at the girl who smirked at him like he smirked at everyone else. Whoever the girl was, she would soon be put in her place at this school, since all five were surely new. He glanced around at his friends and smirked since they were all following the party with their eyes as he had been. "Shall we show them their place tomorrow?" He questioned with unmasked interest.
All the members of the RB looked at him strangely, since it was the first time he'd shown an emotion besides hate, malice, evil pleasure at causing pain, etc. They all nodded and the group wandered down the road opposite the one the girls had taken. They walked down the road to the richest part of town and broke apart going to four different houses. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha went to their rooms and Sesshoumaru listened as Inuyasha put on his pop music. He sighed and put on the depressing, mournful music. He mixed some punk rock music in, even though the members of RB weren't supposed to like that type of music.
He turned on his computer, typing in the password 'solitude' and getting online quickly. He went to the school, Nobunaga High, named after the great Nobunaga himself. He went to the student directory and looked under new students. There they were, all five girls, but there were three others arriving with them. The girls he'd seen were as follows, Shale Mitsuhara, Kagome Higurashi, Sango Yamito, Rin Higurashi, and Ayame Ookami. The other students arriving were Shippou Kitsune, Kohaku Kitsune, and Kikyou Higurashi. They were all from the same place, three of the girls and the two boys being related. Kagome, Kikyou, and Rin were sisters under the last name Higurashi. Shippou and Kohaku were brothers under the name Kitsune. As it turned out the three girls had a younger brother who hadn't been listed. His name was Souta but the reason he wasn't listed became obvious. He was a highschool dropout.
Sesshoumaru looked at the pictures of the girls and the guys. Kikyou was as different from the group as day was different from night. She had her hair up in two buns with fuzzy pink hair ties and her eyes were a light blue. Her outfit consisted of a baby blanket pink tank top with a hot pink dress shirt unbuttoned but tied up over it. Her vinyl miniskirt was hot pink also and her platform sandals were powder pink. Sesshoumaru almost gagged at the site of it. He quickly clicked on the next picture, which was Kagome's.
Kagome was wearing blue jeans with ripped knees and a gray hoodie. She had pretty dark makeup on and was pale with ebony black hair and her eyes were brown. It seemed almost all the girls had naturally black hair. She stood with her hands in her pockets, ratted tennis shoes poking out under the flared jeans. She looked very pissed with the camera person in her pose, no smile gracing her lips. Sesshoumaru smirked. She seemed to be Inuyasha's type. She was probably hard to get and stubborn as hell, just like Inuyasha. Clicking on Rin's photo Sesshoumaru smirked again. The girl seemed to be a little bit preppie but still mostly punk.
Rin was wearing dark blue jeans with a black tank top, blood-red dress shirt over it, and black boots. Her hair was pulled into a high ponytail and she had eyeliner doing the design 'the Cat' on that made her grey eyes stand out. Sesshoumaru clicked on the picture of Shippou and stopped smirking. Shippou was flipping the camera off, bright red hair that hit his shoulders barely showing out from under his red hoodie. He had on some baggy black jeans with chains. Sesshoumaru clicked Kohaku's picture and was met with an almost identical site.
Kohaku was flipping the camera off as well, and was wearing baggy blue jeans and a black hoodie that barely showed his shoulder length black hair. Those boys must've chosen their clothes together for how much they looked alike. As it turns out, the two were twins, not identical, but still twins. Kohaku inherited their mother's dark hair and eyes while Shippou received their father's red hair and green eyes. Sesshoumaru clicked on the next picture, which was Ayame.
The girl stood in front of the camera, with a smirk playing across her lips. Her hair was a dark red, not bright and fiery like Shippou's. She had brown eyes and was wearing a dark purple sleeveless shirt with black jeans and black boots. Her hair was floating around her freely and Sesshoumaru wondered how it seemed to glow with life even in a picture. He shook his head mentally and clicked on Sango's picture, which popped up and showed Sango to be one of the more punkish(A/N not really a word but who cares??) people of the group. Her hair had blue streaks in it, her eyes were a strange lilac color, and she was wearing a Korn muscle tank. She was wearing khaki baggy jeans held up by a spiked belt and black high tops with skulls on them(A/N I saw them in this magazine, they were cool). Her brown hair was pulled into a high ponytail with a spiked band going around her ponytail holder. Her wrists held spiked bracelets and a few black and red ones. Sesshoumaru shook his head and clicked on the final picture.
Shale was definitely the most punk out of the group. Her muscle tank was black with a silver skull on it. Underneath the skull were the words 'Death is natural, deal with it.' Her jeans were black with a red stripe going up the outer side of each leg., and she was wearing black army boots underneath that to complete the look. Her hair was gelled into thick strands that turned into spikes at the end. Someone had found a way to attach steel spikes to the ends of her hair with hair glue or something, so that she had a metal spike at the end of each strand. Her makeup was done with black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and black eyeliner creating 'the Bejeweled Cat.'Her eyes were even stranger than Sango's because they were straight black, no color whatsoever. Her hair was black with red and silver stripes in it in the picture, so Sesshoumaru assumed it was either her favorite style or a recent picture. Maybe it was both. Sighing he did background checks on all of the new students, finding that they were all very intelligent but also very poor. The only reason they'd even gotten into Nobunaga High was their intelligence. He smirked yet again as he thought, 'Now I've found a weakness.' The only person he possibly wouldn't have a problem with was probably Kikyou, though with her fashion sense being that of a barbie's, he doubted it. As he neared Shale's full profile he wondered what she was like, if she was the punk rock/goth queen who rebelled against society or if she was really putting up a front. He shook himself mentally and decided it didn't matter for the moment. He finished his check of the new students and shut off his computer, slipping off to finish his homework.
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Shale smirked at the leader of RB defiantly and then stalked off with her friends following quietly after. Kikyou had gone home right after the bell had rung and made Shippou and Kohaku play bodyguard for her. The brothers had rolled their eyes knowing that in truth she was still trying to convert them into good little preps. Kikyou, Kohaku, and Shippou were waiting and joined the group while Kikyou tried to be separate. Shale approached the turn off to their part of town and walked down it like it was the richer side, as if it was of more worth than anything else, but to Shale it was. It was home. She used to go to a smaller public school where she'd met everyone. Her family had never been super rich, exactly like all her friends, except then the big corporations had started downsizing and casting out workers. All of her friends parents and hers were fired, and they had joined together to form a small business. Shale and her friends helped almost everyday, but right now they had to put their stuff away and then get to the shop.
After they'd started their own business things weren't easy for the families. All five of the families ended up buying a large house in the poorer section of town together. The ten parents had the five downstairs bedrooms while Rin, Kagome, and Kikyou shared a room as always. Kohaku and Shippou shared their room and then Shale, Ayame and Sango. The house was rather big, and the bedrooms for the girls were so huge that all three girls could fit in their rooms comfortably. The boys had always shared a room so it was normal. The house was a small mansion, but it was built so long ago that smaller houses had popped up and it ended up being placed in the center of the poorest neighborhood in Tokyo.
The first floor had five bedrooms that the adults took, a living room that was big enough to have two full size couches, a recliner, and a love seat. The kitchen was pretty big with an island in the center, a bunch of cabinets that held food, spices, canned food, extra cans of pop to be put in the fridge, plates, glasses, pots, and pans. The refrigerator, when opened held tons of food so that everything was almost falling out. Same for the freezer. The dining room was big enough to fit ten adults, eight teenagers, and that was it. There were three bathrooms downstairs. One down the hall from the front door, past the two doors that led to the living room(first door on right) and dining room(first door on left). It was the second door on the left, and adjoined to the first bedroom. Then the other four bedrooms had a bathroom connecting each. The bedroom doors were past the dining room and kitchen farther back in the house. There were two doors after the kitchen door(third and fourth on the right side) that were bedrooms, and two after the first bathroom(third and fourth on the left side) that were the other two bedrooms. The hall made no turns so you could see straight to the back door. Their was a set of stairs next to the back door and next to the front door.
The upstairs was like this. The moment you reached the top of the stairs you were in one giant open area room with a TV and beanbags and game consoles and a radio. There were seven doors from the room. Three led to the bedrooms. The boy's room had an attached bathroom and the girls had one in-between theirs, but there were two more bathrooms for the girls that were used just as often as the other. The sixth door was a closet and the seventh led to the attic, where the group kept their instruments. They had formed a band back when they first met. Shale was lead guitarist and had the most awesome vocals ever, so she was the lead singer too. Sango played the drums while Ayame played the keyboard. Kagome played bass guitar and Rin a bunch of Japanese instruments they used in their songs. When she wasn't playing the Japanese instruments Rin played manager and set up any gigs they ever got, which wasn't many. Shippou did the lighting and most of the electronics while Kohaku sang duets with Shale occasionally. If he didn't sing duets Kohaku was normally the camera man. He videotaped the concerts they had and even made posters with the band's pictures on them.
As the group of eight entered their house and went upstairs, everyone but Kikyou threw down their things and headed back downstairs to get their bikes. Kikyou simply plopped onto a beanbag and picked up a magazine. Everyone knew Kikyou didn't work, even though she was seventeen and wanted a car, but the only way she'd get a car was if she worked like everyone else, which she didn't so no car for her. Shale got on her black bike and put one foot on the pedal, the other one holding her up. "Come on you guys, everyone will be waiting for us to start the deliveries." Now you're probably wondering what type of business was opened among these five married couples. It was a pizza parlor/game room. Shale and her friends used their bikes to make the afternoon deliveries. The parlor was open from ten in the morning to seven in the evening. The game room was open from eight in the morning to seven.
The group of seven students rode around back and got their delivery baskets set up. They went inside and got their delivery addresses before splitting up and delivering the pizzas. Shale's deliveries were to the richer part of town, and she felt like groaning in disgust. She rode up to a house five times the size of hers and stopped at the closed iron bar gates. A guard came out and looked her over. He checked her for weapons, finding only her spiked bracelets and watch with chains on it. He opened the gate and Shale rode up to the door. She climbed off her bike and pulled the pizza box out with her.
Shale knocked three times and waited for a few minutes. She was about to knock again when the door opened and two people with silver hair and golden eyes looked out at her. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha Youkai blinked at seeing Shale there before Inuyasha grinned evilly and Sesshoumaru stared at her blankly. "Did someone here order a pizza or do I have to wander this street till I find the right giant ass house?" Sesshoumaru shook his head and held out his arms to take the pizza. Shale sighed. That'll be $11.53." Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha who pulled out twelve dollars. Sesshoumaru now had the pizza in hand as Shale pulled out her black work wallet. She was about to pull out forty-seven cents when Inuyasha spoke. "Keep the tip. Maybe it'll help you buy our school uniform."
Shale glared at Inuyasha angrily and unconsciously tightened her hands into fists. "I can afford the damn uniform. I just prefer not to wear the stupid thing." Inuyasha just laughed slightly. "Please. On the lousy salary your parents make I doubt that's true." Shale had already had enough. She punched Inuyasha full force in the jaw. Inuyasha hit the floor with a dull thud and looked up at Shale murderously. "What happened to slapping someone?" Shale smirked. "You'll find my friends and I aren't ordinary girls. A punch gets the message across much better than a slap." Inuyasha glared. "You almost broke my jaw bitch. I'll make you pay." Shale just smirked again.
"You can't do anything to me." Sesshoumaru had watched the entire act in amusement. He was surprised that Shale could punch so hard. It made him think better of her. He watched as the girl turned on her heel and went back to her bike, which she proceeded to leave on. Sesshoumaru arched a brow at the fact that she didn't have a car when she was seventeen like most of her group. Only three people were sixteen, and those people were the two boys and Rin.
Shale pedaled out the gate and looked for her next stop. It was the house across the street, great more snobs to deal with. Shale pedaled up to the door, thankful this one didn't have a gate. She knocked on the door twice and someone answered immediately. It was Kouga. Great another member of the RB. Did they all live right next to each other. Kouga gave Shale a dazzling smile that Shale didn't even blink at. "You order a pizza?" Kouga nodded. "Yeah. My parents aren't home so I just ordered out." Shale nodded. "That'll be $23.78." Kouga handed her the money and took the two pizzas. Shale was about to leave when Kouga caught her shoulder. "You want to stay and help me eat these?" He was dripping with charm and something else, lust maybe.
"Sorry. I've got more deliveries to make." With those parting words she shook Kouga's hand off and went back to her bike. She pedaled off with Kouga still watching her. She glanced at her addresses and sighed. Right next door. Wonderful, probably the next member of the RB. She pedaled up to the door and knocked. 'Don't any of these people have doorbells?' Shale wondered silently. The door opened and Miroku nearly gasped in surprise. Standing on his doorstep was the goddess herself. The leader of the punk group he'd seen earlier that day. Shale bit her lip trying to keep from screaming. Instead she said, "Kami-sama I hate being right. What is it? Pizza night for the RB?" Miroku gave her a weird look. "Yeah it is. How'd you know?"
"Because I've been making deliveries to you guys all afternoon." Miroku chuckled and shook his head. "I see. Well how much is it beautiful lady?" Shale ignored the compliment and gave him his pizza, which he took one handed. "$11.53." Miroku handed her fourteen dollars and winked. His hand lingered a little too long and as Shale turned away she felt someone's hand on her ass. "HENTAI!!" Then Miroku was on the floor unconscious, another victim of Shale's deadly punch. He awoke shortly after and had enough time to see her cross the street to Naraku's. Little did Shale know that three surrounding houses had teenagers who were cracking up after hearing her scream of hentai.
As Shale approached the door to her last delivery for now the door opened and Naraku stepped out. "Already been to everyone else's house, eh?" Shale nodded. "$11.53." Naraku handed her fifteen dollars and took the pizza box one handed. Shale started to turn around when he caught her wrist. "Now that all your deliveries have been made, I suggest you stay here and eat with me. We can watch a movie later and snuggle under a blanket." Shale just shook her head trying to yank her wrist from Naraku's grasp. He'd managed to avoid the spikes. "Oh come now. You should never pass up an opportunity to be with a member of the RB." Shale finally got her money slipped into a pocket and used the spikes on her other wrist to stab Naraku's hand. He pulled back, cringing in pain, as Shale went to her bike and put the money in its proper place. She pedaled off with all five RB members watching her carefully.
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Shale sat at the computer that they'd put in the back room of the pizza place. She'd finished her deliveries earlier than everyone else and had about an hour to do some research on the computer. She went to Nobunaga High's home page and then to the student directory. She then went to the RB special section. She clicked on the section and five head shots popped up with names underneath. Sesshoumaru Youkai, Inuyasha Youkai, Naraku Akuma, Miroku Houshi, and Kouga Yurashima. She clicked on Sesshoumaru's profile first and found all his information. His silver hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the nape of his neck, the ends brushing his waist. He was wearing black slacks and a black tank top with an unbuttoned black dress shirt. His golden eyes were frosty and looked empty. He had a frown on his face and looked as if he were the GQ for Stoic Monthly.
Shale looked at his stats and other stuff, finding out he was eighteen and had always been a rich person. His mother had died when he was a few months old, and his father had remarried a few months later. Inuyasha had been born exactly one year after Sesshoumaru, which meant that an affair had been going on. There wasn't much on that subject, but quick deduction by Shale lead to her answers. She moved to the next profile, which was Inuyasha's. He was seventeen and in his pic his hair was loose. He was wearing a blue polo shirt with khaki slacks and loafers. Shale knew at once he was posing for the picture, but it scared her at just how preppie he was willing to dress. His golden eyes weren't as amazing as Sesshoumaru's, partially because Sesshoumaru's were darker with more wisdom and age than was possible for an eighteen year-old, which meant family problems of some sort. Inuyasha's eyes were open and carefree, as if he'd never grown out of being a five year-old. His hair was different too. It was rougher, not as silky and shiny as Sesshoumaru's. Shale mentally shook her head and moved on to Naraku's profile.
In his picture his long brown hair was in a high ponytail and he was wearing jeans with a buttoned white dress shirt. He was even wearing cowboy boots, Kami help him. He looked every bit a prep and Shale simply looked away. And moved to his stats without looking. He was eighteen and only a few days younger than Sesshoumaru. His parents were dead and he had inherited everything, even though he was still a senior in highschool. Shale just clicked on Miroku's profile before she gagged. Miroku looked relatively normal in his pictures. He wore a pair of jeans with a dark purple t-shirt. His hair was just long enough to be pulled back into a short, low ponytail. He was smiling at the camera as if he were constantly happy. Shale just shook her head mentally again and moved to his stats.
He was seventeen, a few months older than Inuyasha. They were obviously pretty close friends. He had been kinda poor when he was younger before his father started his corporation and started making a lot more money. The fact that he used to be poor got him brownie points from Shale. She moved to Kouga's profile and watched as his picture loaded. Kouga was wearing a brown sweat band and had a brown muscle tank on. He was wearing a pair of brown gym shorts and some tennis shoes. Shale shook her head for real. "He must like brown a lot." Even his long hair was pulled into a high ponytail with a brown hair tie. Shale clicked on his stats and sighed yet again. Kouga had always been rich, be was seventeen, and then there was the line that bugged her. Under all his stats was his personal message. It read: The ladies love me, the guys are jealous of me, but I make time for everyone.
Shale just shook her head and turned the computer off. 'So those are the RB. Kami help me.'
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Sesshoumaru smiled in amusement as he drove toward the house where Shale and her friends supposedly all lived together. He parked out in front of the small mansion and smirked. The lights were on and he could see people in the dining room. He went up to the door and knocked. A few minutes later Kikyou opened the door. "Kami-sama!!" She squeaked before fully opening the door. "How can I help you Sesshoumaru-san?" Sesshoumaru smirked. "Is Shale here?" Kikyou glowered but nodded. "Follow me." Kikyou closed the door then led Sesshoumaru down the hall. The dining room was filled with eighteen people, all of which stopped everything to look at Sesshoumaru as he entered the room.
Shale had a fork with some type of meat on it as she stared at him. She slowly put her fork down and got up from the table. "Excuse me for a minute everyone." She walked past Sesshoumaru slowly and motioned him to follow her. She led him out the back door and into a spacious backyard with a few homemade swings and other things. "What are you doing here?" She hissed heatedly. Sesshoumaru smirked. "My brother forgot to tip you properly. I also had to tip you for knocking some sense into him." Sesshoumaru whipped out his wallet and handed Shale a twenty dollar bill, which she promptly handed back to him. "That's quite alright. He got what he deserved and I don't need you to pay me to keep quiet about hurting him."
Sesshoumaru just stared at the girl. She felt a little nervous under his intense gaze. "What?" Sesshoumaru shook his head. "You surprise me Shale Mitsuhara. This money isn't to keep you quiet though, it's to thank you." Shale blinked a few times. "What??" Sesshoumaru smiled. "I wanted to thank you for showing my brother he can't get away with everything." Shale just stood there mouth gaping as Sesshoumaru pressed the twenty into her hand and went through the back gate to his car. Shale went back inside still slightly dazed as she slid the twenty into her pocket. She returned to her seat at the dinner table and finished her meal.
+~*A/N*~+
So what do you think? Keep it? Lose it? What? I want some reviews to see what I should do. Also I've got a poll for you. Which of these two names should the band's name be: Vorn Isil(Black Moon in elvish) or Vorn Silme(Black Starlight in elvish)? Or should I stick with the English version of one of the two? Tell me which you like better because I've had to narrow the choices down a lot and finally came down to these two. Send me some reviews and I'll write more chapters. No reviews no chapters. I'm not going to place a number on how many I need before I put up another chapter this time, but that may change if I don't get enough.
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Disclaimer:I don't own Inuyasha, never have and never will.
Sesshoumaru smirked as he watched Naraku and Kouga beat the daylights out of that Hojo boy. Nerds like him didn't deserve to talk to the Great Sesshoumaru, leader of the most popular group of boys in school. The gang was known as the Rich Bastards, RB for short. They hadn't chosen the name, rather it was chosen for them. They were the most popular boys, and could date anyone in the school without question. He smirked as Hojo fell to the floor unconscious. They heard a teacher coming and quickly the three members of RB ducked into a janitor's closet. They listened to the teacher find the unconscious boy and listened as the male teacher, obvious by the voice, hauled Hojo to the nurse's office.
Hours after this incident Inuyasha, Miroku, Naraku, Kouga, and Sesshoumaru were walking across the vast front lawns talking about women, money, summer vacation, inheritance battles, the usual. That's when they appeared. Five girls stood under a tree, all of them dressed in black, silver, or red, or all three colors. They were talking in low voices, but stopped when one of them spotted the entire RB standing only a ways off. The girl who was obviously the leader of the gang, turned and smirked at them before she and her friends stalked off the campus. Sesshoumaru followed her with his eyes, her black and silver top with black jeans and silver chains catching his eye. Her hair was in a high pony tail and was the color of pitch blackness with silver and red streaks here and there. It hit her lower back, almost to her waist.
He smiled at her silver stripes, because it was the exact same silver his and Inuyasha's hair was. His golden eyes glinted with amusement at the girl who smirked at him like he smirked at everyone else. Whoever the girl was, she would soon be put in her place at this school, since all five were surely new. He glanced around at his friends and smirked since they were all following the party with their eyes as he had been. "Shall we show them their place tomorrow?" He questioned with unmasked interest.
All the members of the RB looked at him strangely, since it was the first time he'd shown an emotion besides hate, malice, evil pleasure at causing pain, etc. They all nodded and the group wandered down the road opposite the one the girls had taken. They walked down the road to the richest part of town and broke apart going to four different houses. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha went to their rooms and Sesshoumaru listened as Inuyasha put on his pop music. He sighed and put on the depressing, mournful music. He mixed some punk rock music in, even though the members of RB weren't supposed to like that type of music.
He turned on his computer, typing in the password 'solitude' and getting online quickly. He went to the school, Nobunaga High, named after the great Nobunaga himself. He went to the student directory and looked under new students. There they were, all five girls, but there were three others arriving with them. The girls he'd seen were as follows, Shale Mitsuhara, Kagome Higurashi, Sango Yamito, Rin Higurashi, and Ayame Ookami. The other students arriving were Shippou Kitsune, Kohaku Kitsune, and Kikyou Higurashi. They were all from the same place, three of the girls and the two boys being related. Kagome, Kikyou, and Rin were sisters under the last name Higurashi. Shippou and Kohaku were brothers under the name Kitsune. As it turned out the three girls had a younger brother who hadn't been listed. His name was Souta but the reason he wasn't listed became obvious. He was a highschool dropout.
Sesshoumaru looked at the pictures of the girls and the guys. Kikyou was as different from the group as day was different from night. She had her hair up in two buns with fuzzy pink hair ties and her eyes were a light blue. Her outfit consisted of a baby blanket pink tank top with a hot pink dress shirt unbuttoned but tied up over it. Her vinyl miniskirt was hot pink also and her platform sandals were powder pink. Sesshoumaru almost gagged at the site of it. He quickly clicked on the next picture, which was Kagome's.
Kagome was wearing blue jeans with ripped knees and a gray hoodie. She had pretty dark makeup on and was pale with ebony black hair and her eyes were brown. It seemed almost all the girls had naturally black hair. She stood with her hands in her pockets, ratted tennis shoes poking out under the flared jeans. She looked very pissed with the camera person in her pose, no smile gracing her lips. Sesshoumaru smirked. She seemed to be Inuyasha's type. She was probably hard to get and stubborn as hell, just like Inuyasha. Clicking on Rin's photo Sesshoumaru smirked again. The girl seemed to be a little bit preppie but still mostly punk.
Rin was wearing dark blue jeans with a black tank top, blood-red dress shirt over it, and black boots. Her hair was pulled into a high ponytail and she had eyeliner doing the design 'the Cat' on that made her grey eyes stand out. Sesshoumaru clicked on the picture of Shippou and stopped smirking. Shippou was flipping the camera off, bright red hair that hit his shoulders barely showing out from under his red hoodie. He had on some baggy black jeans with chains. Sesshoumaru clicked Kohaku's picture and was met with an almost identical site.
Kohaku was flipping the camera off as well, and was wearing baggy blue jeans and a black hoodie that barely showed his shoulder length black hair. Those boys must've chosen their clothes together for how much they looked alike. As it turns out, the two were twins, not identical, but still twins. Kohaku inherited their mother's dark hair and eyes while Shippou received their father's red hair and green eyes. Sesshoumaru clicked on the next picture, which was Ayame.
The girl stood in front of the camera, with a smirk playing across her lips. Her hair was a dark red, not bright and fiery like Shippou's. She had brown eyes and was wearing a dark purple sleeveless shirt with black jeans and black boots. Her hair was floating around her freely and Sesshoumaru wondered how it seemed to glow with life even in a picture. He shook his head mentally and clicked on Sango's picture, which popped up and showed Sango to be one of the more punkish(A/N not really a word but who cares??) people of the group. Her hair had blue streaks in it, her eyes were a strange lilac color, and she was wearing a Korn muscle tank. She was wearing khaki baggy jeans held up by a spiked belt and black high tops with skulls on them(A/N I saw them in this magazine, they were cool). Her brown hair was pulled into a high ponytail with a spiked band going around her ponytail holder. Her wrists held spiked bracelets and a few black and red ones. Sesshoumaru shook his head and clicked on the final picture.
Shale was definitely the most punk out of the group. Her muscle tank was black with a silver skull on it. Underneath the skull were the words 'Death is natural, deal with it.' Her jeans were black with a red stripe going up the outer side of each leg., and she was wearing black army boots underneath that to complete the look. Her hair was gelled into thick strands that turned into spikes at the end. Someone had found a way to attach steel spikes to the ends of her hair with hair glue or something, so that she had a metal spike at the end of each strand. Her makeup was done with black lipstick, black eyeshadow, and black eyeliner creating 'the Bejeweled Cat.'Her eyes were even stranger than Sango's because they were straight black, no color whatsoever. Her hair was black with red and silver stripes in it in the picture, so Sesshoumaru assumed it was either her favorite style or a recent picture. Maybe it was both. Sighing he did background checks on all of the new students, finding that they were all very intelligent but also very poor. The only reason they'd even gotten into Nobunaga High was their intelligence. He smirked yet again as he thought, 'Now I've found a weakness.' The only person he possibly wouldn't have a problem with was probably Kikyou, though with her fashion sense being that of a barbie's, he doubted it. As he neared Shale's full profile he wondered what she was like, if she was the punk rock/goth queen who rebelled against society or if she was really putting up a front. He shook himself mentally and decided it didn't matter for the moment. He finished his check of the new students and shut off his computer, slipping off to finish his homework.
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Shale smirked at the leader of RB defiantly and then stalked off with her friends following quietly after. Kikyou had gone home right after the bell had rung and made Shippou and Kohaku play bodyguard for her. The brothers had rolled their eyes knowing that in truth she was still trying to convert them into good little preps. Kikyou, Kohaku, and Shippou were waiting and joined the group while Kikyou tried to be separate. Shale approached the turn off to their part of town and walked down it like it was the richer side, as if it was of more worth than anything else, but to Shale it was. It was home. She used to go to a smaller public school where she'd met everyone. Her family had never been super rich, exactly like all her friends, except then the big corporations had started downsizing and casting out workers. All of her friends parents and hers were fired, and they had joined together to form a small business. Shale and her friends helped almost everyday, but right now they had to put their stuff away and then get to the shop.
After they'd started their own business things weren't easy for the families. All five of the families ended up buying a large house in the poorer section of town together. The ten parents had the five downstairs bedrooms while Rin, Kagome, and Kikyou shared a room as always. Kohaku and Shippou shared their room and then Shale, Ayame and Sango. The house was rather big, and the bedrooms for the girls were so huge that all three girls could fit in their rooms comfortably. The boys had always shared a room so it was normal. The house was a small mansion, but it was built so long ago that smaller houses had popped up and it ended up being placed in the center of the poorest neighborhood in Tokyo.
The first floor had five bedrooms that the adults took, a living room that was big enough to have two full size couches, a recliner, and a love seat. The kitchen was pretty big with an island in the center, a bunch of cabinets that held food, spices, canned food, extra cans of pop to be put in the fridge, plates, glasses, pots, and pans. The refrigerator, when opened held tons of food so that everything was almost falling out. Same for the freezer. The dining room was big enough to fit ten adults, eight teenagers, and that was it. There were three bathrooms downstairs. One down the hall from the front door, past the two doors that led to the living room(first door on right) and dining room(first door on left). It was the second door on the left, and adjoined to the first bedroom. Then the other four bedrooms had a bathroom connecting each. The bedroom doors were past the dining room and kitchen farther back in the house. There were two doors after the kitchen door(third and fourth on the right side) that were bedrooms, and two after the first bathroom(third and fourth on the left side) that were the other two bedrooms. The hall made no turns so you could see straight to the back door. Their was a set of stairs next to the back door and next to the front door.
The upstairs was like this. The moment you reached the top of the stairs you were in one giant open area room with a TV and beanbags and game consoles and a radio. There were seven doors from the room. Three led to the bedrooms. The boy's room had an attached bathroom and the girls had one in-between theirs, but there were two more bathrooms for the girls that were used just as often as the other. The sixth door was a closet and the seventh led to the attic, where the group kept their instruments. They had formed a band back when they first met. Shale was lead guitarist and had the most awesome vocals ever, so she was the lead singer too. Sango played the drums while Ayame played the keyboard. Kagome played bass guitar and Rin a bunch of Japanese instruments they used in their songs. When she wasn't playing the Japanese instruments Rin played manager and set up any gigs they ever got, which wasn't many. Shippou did the lighting and most of the electronics while Kohaku sang duets with Shale occasionally. If he didn't sing duets Kohaku was normally the camera man. He videotaped the concerts they had and even made posters with the band's pictures on them.
As the group of eight entered their house and went upstairs, everyone but Kikyou threw down their things and headed back downstairs to get their bikes. Kikyou simply plopped onto a beanbag and picked up a magazine. Everyone knew Kikyou didn't work, even though she was seventeen and wanted a car, but the only way she'd get a car was if she worked like everyone else, which she didn't so no car for her. Shale got on her black bike and put one foot on the pedal, the other one holding her up. "Come on you guys, everyone will be waiting for us to start the deliveries." Now you're probably wondering what type of business was opened among these five married couples. It was a pizza parlor/game room. Shale and her friends used their bikes to make the afternoon deliveries. The parlor was open from ten in the morning to seven in the evening. The game room was open from eight in the morning to seven.
The group of seven students rode around back and got their delivery baskets set up. They went inside and got their delivery addresses before splitting up and delivering the pizzas. Shale's deliveries were to the richer part of town, and she felt like groaning in disgust. She rode up to a house five times the size of hers and stopped at the closed iron bar gates. A guard came out and looked her over. He checked her for weapons, finding only her spiked bracelets and watch with chains on it. He opened the gate and Shale rode up to the door. She climbed off her bike and pulled the pizza box out with her.
Shale knocked three times and waited for a few minutes. She was about to knock again when the door opened and two people with silver hair and golden eyes looked out at her. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha Youkai blinked at seeing Shale there before Inuyasha grinned evilly and Sesshoumaru stared at her blankly. "Did someone here order a pizza or do I have to wander this street till I find the right giant ass house?" Sesshoumaru shook his head and held out his arms to take the pizza. Shale sighed. That'll be $11.53." Sesshoumaru looked at Inuyasha who pulled out twelve dollars. Sesshoumaru now had the pizza in hand as Shale pulled out her black work wallet. She was about to pull out forty-seven cents when Inuyasha spoke. "Keep the tip. Maybe it'll help you buy our school uniform."
Shale glared at Inuyasha angrily and unconsciously tightened her hands into fists. "I can afford the damn uniform. I just prefer not to wear the stupid thing." Inuyasha just laughed slightly. "Please. On the lousy salary your parents make I doubt that's true." Shale had already had enough. She punched Inuyasha full force in the jaw. Inuyasha hit the floor with a dull thud and looked up at Shale murderously. "What happened to slapping someone?" Shale smirked. "You'll find my friends and I aren't ordinary girls. A punch gets the message across much better than a slap." Inuyasha glared. "You almost broke my jaw bitch. I'll make you pay." Shale just smirked again.
"You can't do anything to me." Sesshoumaru had watched the entire act in amusement. He was surprised that Shale could punch so hard. It made him think better of her. He watched as the girl turned on her heel and went back to her bike, which she proceeded to leave on. Sesshoumaru arched a brow at the fact that she didn't have a car when she was seventeen like most of her group. Only three people were sixteen, and those people were the two boys and Rin.
Shale pedaled out the gate and looked for her next stop. It was the house across the street, great more snobs to deal with. Shale pedaled up to the door, thankful this one didn't have a gate. She knocked on the door twice and someone answered immediately. It was Kouga. Great another member of the RB. Did they all live right next to each other. Kouga gave Shale a dazzling smile that Shale didn't even blink at. "You order a pizza?" Kouga nodded. "Yeah. My parents aren't home so I just ordered out." Shale nodded. "That'll be $23.78." Kouga handed her the money and took the two pizzas. Shale was about to leave when Kouga caught her shoulder. "You want to stay and help me eat these?" He was dripping with charm and something else, lust maybe.
"Sorry. I've got more deliveries to make." With those parting words she shook Kouga's hand off and went back to her bike. She pedaled off with Kouga still watching her. She glanced at her addresses and sighed. Right next door. Wonderful, probably the next member of the RB. She pedaled up to the door and knocked. 'Don't any of these people have doorbells?' Shale wondered silently. The door opened and Miroku nearly gasped in surprise. Standing on his doorstep was the goddess herself. The leader of the punk group he'd seen earlier that day. Shale bit her lip trying to keep from screaming. Instead she said, "Kami-sama I hate being right. What is it? Pizza night for the RB?" Miroku gave her a weird look. "Yeah it is. How'd you know?"
"Because I've been making deliveries to you guys all afternoon." Miroku chuckled and shook his head. "I see. Well how much is it beautiful lady?" Shale ignored the compliment and gave him his pizza, which he took one handed. "$11.53." Miroku handed her fourteen dollars and winked. His hand lingered a little too long and as Shale turned away she felt someone's hand on her ass. "HENTAI!!" Then Miroku was on the floor unconscious, another victim of Shale's deadly punch. He awoke shortly after and had enough time to see her cross the street to Naraku's. Little did Shale know that three surrounding houses had teenagers who were cracking up after hearing her scream of hentai.
As Shale approached the door to her last delivery for now the door opened and Naraku stepped out. "Already been to everyone else's house, eh?" Shale nodded. "$11.53." Naraku handed her fifteen dollars and took the pizza box one handed. Shale started to turn around when he caught her wrist. "Now that all your deliveries have been made, I suggest you stay here and eat with me. We can watch a movie later and snuggle under a blanket." Shale just shook her head trying to yank her wrist from Naraku's grasp. He'd managed to avoid the spikes. "Oh come now. You should never pass up an opportunity to be with a member of the RB." Shale finally got her money slipped into a pocket and used the spikes on her other wrist to stab Naraku's hand. He pulled back, cringing in pain, as Shale went to her bike and put the money in its proper place. She pedaled off with all five RB members watching her carefully.
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Shale sat at the computer that they'd put in the back room of the pizza place. She'd finished her deliveries earlier than everyone else and had about an hour to do some research on the computer. She went to Nobunaga High's home page and then to the student directory. She then went to the RB special section. She clicked on the section and five head shots popped up with names underneath. Sesshoumaru Youkai, Inuyasha Youkai, Naraku Akuma, Miroku Houshi, and Kouga Yurashima. She clicked on Sesshoumaru's profile first and found all his information. His silver hair was pulled back into a ponytail at the nape of his neck, the ends brushing his waist. He was wearing black slacks and a black tank top with an unbuttoned black dress shirt. His golden eyes were frosty and looked empty. He had a frown on his face and looked as if he were the GQ for Stoic Monthly.
Shale looked at his stats and other stuff, finding out he was eighteen and had always been a rich person. His mother had died when he was a few months old, and his father had remarried a few months later. Inuyasha had been born exactly one year after Sesshoumaru, which meant that an affair had been going on. There wasn't much on that subject, but quick deduction by Shale lead to her answers. She moved to the next profile, which was Inuyasha's. He was seventeen and in his pic his hair was loose. He was wearing a blue polo shirt with khaki slacks and loafers. Shale knew at once he was posing for the picture, but it scared her at just how preppie he was willing to dress. His golden eyes weren't as amazing as Sesshoumaru's, partially because Sesshoumaru's were darker with more wisdom and age than was possible for an eighteen year-old, which meant family problems of some sort. Inuyasha's eyes were open and carefree, as if he'd never grown out of being a five year-old. His hair was different too. It was rougher, not as silky and shiny as Sesshoumaru's. Shale mentally shook her head and moved on to Naraku's profile.
In his picture his long brown hair was in a high ponytail and he was wearing jeans with a buttoned white dress shirt. He was even wearing cowboy boots, Kami help him. He looked every bit a prep and Shale simply looked away. And moved to his stats without looking. He was eighteen and only a few days younger than Sesshoumaru. His parents were dead and he had inherited everything, even though he was still a senior in highschool. Shale just clicked on Miroku's profile before she gagged. Miroku looked relatively normal in his pictures. He wore a pair of jeans with a dark purple t-shirt. His hair was just long enough to be pulled back into a short, low ponytail. He was smiling at the camera as if he were constantly happy. Shale just shook her head mentally again and moved to his stats.
He was seventeen, a few months older than Inuyasha. They were obviously pretty close friends. He had been kinda poor when he was younger before his father started his corporation and started making a lot more money. The fact that he used to be poor got him brownie points from Shale. She moved to Kouga's profile and watched as his picture loaded. Kouga was wearing a brown sweat band and had a brown muscle tank on. He was wearing a pair of brown gym shorts and some tennis shoes. Shale shook her head for real. "He must like brown a lot." Even his long hair was pulled into a high ponytail with a brown hair tie. Shale clicked on his stats and sighed yet again. Kouga had always been rich, be was seventeen, and then there was the line that bugged her. Under all his stats was his personal message. It read: The ladies love me, the guys are jealous of me, but I make time for everyone.
Shale just shook her head and turned the computer off. 'So those are the RB. Kami help me.'
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Sesshoumaru smiled in amusement as he drove toward the house where Shale and her friends supposedly all lived together. He parked out in front of the small mansion and smirked. The lights were on and he could see people in the dining room. He went up to the door and knocked. A few minutes later Kikyou opened the door. "Kami-sama!!" She squeaked before fully opening the door. "How can I help you Sesshoumaru-san?" Sesshoumaru smirked. "Is Shale here?" Kikyou glowered but nodded. "Follow me." Kikyou closed the door then led Sesshoumaru down the hall. The dining room was filled with eighteen people, all of which stopped everything to look at Sesshoumaru as he entered the room.
Shale had a fork with some type of meat on it as she stared at him. She slowly put her fork down and got up from the table. "Excuse me for a minute everyone." She walked past Sesshoumaru slowly and motioned him to follow her. She led him out the back door and into a spacious backyard with a few homemade swings and other things. "What are you doing here?" She hissed heatedly. Sesshoumaru smirked. "My brother forgot to tip you properly. I also had to tip you for knocking some sense into him." Sesshoumaru whipped out his wallet and handed Shale a twenty dollar bill, which she promptly handed back to him. "That's quite alright. He got what he deserved and I don't need you to pay me to keep quiet about hurting him."
Sesshoumaru just stared at the girl. She felt a little nervous under his intense gaze. "What?" Sesshoumaru shook his head. "You surprise me Shale Mitsuhara. This money isn't to keep you quiet though, it's to thank you." Shale blinked a few times. "What??" Sesshoumaru smiled. "I wanted to thank you for showing my brother he can't get away with everything." Shale just stood there mouth gaping as Sesshoumaru pressed the twenty into her hand and went through the back gate to his car. Shale went back inside still slightly dazed as she slid the twenty into her pocket. She returned to her seat at the dinner table and finished her meal.
+~*A/N*~+
So what do you think? Keep it? Lose it? What? I want some reviews to see what I should do. Also I've got a poll for you. Which of these two names should the band's name be: Vorn Isil(Black Moon in elvish) or Vorn Silme(Black Starlight in elvish)? Or should I stick with the English version of one of the two? Tell me which you like better because I've had to narrow the choices down a lot and finally came down to these two. Send me some reviews and I'll write more chapters. No reviews no chapters. I'm not going to place a number on how many I need before I put up another chapter this time, but that may change if I don't get enough.
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